The Winery was founded 30 years ago and it was buitl with a classical and functional design. There are a winery for the production in the main floor and a cellar for the ripening and ageing of the wines.
Our facilities constantly improve, they can produce 1,0 milion liter for the winemaking in stainless steel tanks and 350,000 liters in French oak barrels of different capacities with a modern production system equipped with the latest technology.
Currently, there is a research and development area for microvinification of ultra premium wine whose goal is tasted with grapes of different plots to produce our most exclusive wine.
The history of La Luz del Duero is like a part of the history of Spain. More than 110 years, a Galician young couple and newlyweds, decided to undertake the long journey to Argentina. Together, Mr Serafín Fernández and Mrs María Núñez were looking for the place where they found their life. They left behind their own families, which, they sensed, they would never see again. They arrived a luminous morning, and in their pockets they only had a written paper with the name of the village where one cousin of Mrs María lived. There was work for the both in the Argentine Pampas, a hard work, from sunrise to sunset. It began a new life. Over the years, the children arrived. All of them were brought up loving the land and its yields, since Mr Serafín has been vintner in “the vineyard terrains that surround the Peñafiel Castle, crossed by the Douro river”. Just like that, he used to tell his grandchilren watching his Argentine vineyards, in those days when those words got a lump in his throat. It happened then, as the poet related, since the grandfather, that he had been vintner in his mother country, and vintner, carrier, pressman and winemaker in Argentina, one day he fell asleep without return to Spain. He asked his childs to make the promise that they would return to the North winds. The fouth generation of the family returned to the land of their granparents, to those “vineyard terrains that surround the Peñafiel Castle” for translating there everthing learned with the aged vineyards and the new Mendoza wines, in the Andes Mountains. In Spain they patiently chose, for several crops, that land and that winery that allow them produce wines according to their own vintner lineage. These wines would be a “thank you very much” to their Spanish brothers because, in the end to this land, to its vines and its vintners, nowadays they are what they are: caretakers of the vineyard, vintners, winemakers and wine lovers.
La Luz del Duero was founded almost thirty years ago by Spaniards below the Peñafiel Castle, is the vineyard terrain that synthesizes the heart of the Ribera del Duero, the Denomination of Origin which is world-renowned for its stately style and its grapes, that seem that they grow knowing that they will be the best wine of Spain.